-- ceo, mark zuker berg -- mark zuker berg. >> this week president obama released his 3.7 3 trillion- dollar budget proposal and technology leaders are said to be critical. >>> san francisco's central subway project is getting high marks from federal transportation officials. that's the word from mayor ed lee as crews have begun digging up the streets. in a press release, he said the federal transit authority listed it in among the highest rated. and he pointed to an allocation of $200 million in president obama's budget proposal. the central subway will run from moscone central through union square and chinatown. >>> in the past two hours, caltrans pave a -- gave a media tour of the area of the eastern span of the bay bridge that will connect to oakland two world series ago. they outlined the goal to get people know about to let people know about this. this will allow people to get to work. caltrans says the work is ahead of schedule. coming up on the meuse at -- coming up on the news at 5:00, tom vacar will have a full report of the lane changes coming to the bay bridge. >>> we are

as predicted 25 years ago by chief justice rose berg , she said the following. we have no difficulty, it seems finding sufficient funds to build more prisons. one of california's largest industries. but each year, public defenders and private providers of quality defense battle for every dollar needed to protect this constitutional right. the bar association of san francisco is committed to partnerering with, not competing with our public defenders. san francisco fortunate to have a strong public defender and a bar system committed to quality representation for the poor. to best guarantee quality indigent defense, our partnership with the public defender and bar association is essential. they are each other's complements. the sum of the part that makes the whole of criminal defense work so well in san francisco. a challenge for our profession will be to ensure that cities and counties fighting seemingly endless budget deficits do not fall prey to the burgeoning business offered through websites of contract services for criminal defense. our constitution mandates

city college at san francisco border trusties natalie berg. executives of the labor council.ey dennis her erherr. tom ammiano, george gascon. former supervisor bevan dufty is here with us. department of environment director emily nutter. interim police chief jeff godown. thank you for being here today. [applause] now on with the program. when phil told me he invited the speaker of the california state assembly to swear him in, i looked at him and said, are you kidding me? the governor is introducing his budget that we, sessions that week, there is no way he is driving down to san francisco for you on wednesday night. but it sure enough, here i am. i am not sure that bill asked me to introduce him, more so as payback for being the naysayer. we are so happy to have you here. i get to call you john, because this was before he became speaker. i first met john in 2008. bill said to me, my college friend is in town running for a board office in l.a.. we found ourselves having breakfast one morning. i thought, we are going to spend the entire breakfast talking about his candidacy, w

doing to characters berg. but then again. with the delta protection act clearly is headed to court. to court. last year we ended up with odds not only with the building industry of california but also the legal cities and county organizations not wanting us to interfere and we think we have a different relationship this year and we want to continue to push the issue of land use plans and processes not just some ste rile plan on a shelf. fully use this and even more importantly disclose those kinds of things as they proceed to develop properly. one issue is when we issue grants from onee and 84 to perhaps flood jurisdiction we want the local land use that protects that to adopt a formal flood risk associated with it. very controversial but that fight is not over. >> all right. over on this side in the back, yes. >> i'm laura lee from the san francisco chamber of commerce. i have two questions. one your welcome to ignore and answer the second one. the first one is, this conversation today seems apposed to issue about draining hetchhetchy. if you could assure me somewhere in your plan

. >> spiel-berg is the director, right? >> jimmy: i said it wrong.erg, though. he has the hat and the beard. he wear a "gremlins" t-shirt. >> when he gets done washing cars he goes, "cut!" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, he puts an "e.t." finger in the window. while he's waxing it, i was like, "wait, did i just see that?" [ as e.t. ] >> "drive home." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: ridiculous. but it's funny. do you like seeing yourself on the screen? >> no! >> jimmy: you don't? >> i don't. i watched the movie. and i watched owen and i'm like, "he's incredible. he's great." then i'm like, "oy!" when i watch myself, i have to like squint. it's the same stuff with like "snl." i used to say, "oh, it's because we don't get a lot of time at 'snl' for makeup. you know, you are doing it really quick in between the commercial breaks." that was the excuse i was giving myself when i would watch myself on television. and then on movies, you know, they take a great deal of time with makeup and lighting and all that stuff, and i still look like hell. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: y

gunner sand berg now a senior returned for his first day of baseball practice yesterday. the team coach says begin is good enough that he could start at short stop or third base this season. this is when he was throwing out the ceremony first pitch for the team game at at&t park back in may. last march when sand berg was pitching a ball that was hit off a metal bat hit him in the head squarely fracturing had skull. he was in a coma for some time afterward. now that incident prompted all marin county high school baseball teams to switch to wooden bats which have less if he loss -- velocity. nice to see him back on the field. >> good for him. recovery is terrific. >> baseball weather. whatever you want to do outside. >> cooler i notice. >> it's really going to get much cooler overnight tonight. record warmth three days in a row. sat sunday yesterday and now temperatures are taking a nose dive but still clear, though. dry. people high definition camera here top the roof at abc 7 looking towards coyote tower and see a fraction of the moon up there in the sky. clear sky tonigh

phil received a citation after reciting the famous 1863 speech, the geties berg -- gettysburg addresst the lincoln memorial. he passed a basket around for donations which illustrate turns out is illegal vending. he plans to handle his fine in a presidential manner and pay for it. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. bill, good morning. >> good morning, lynn. we're going to have a very interesting forecast in the pacific northwest. we have cold conditions. we have snow on the way. a late season winter storm. already winter storm warnings for seattle and right down interstate 5 to medford with watches in effect for northern california and northern sections there in nevada. also winter storm warnings near spokane. temperatures, they're cold. 32 in medford. 34 in seattle. with temperatures like that, the roads are going to be okay, but we could see snow starting to accumulate on the grassy surfaces. now, the snow is also going to be moving in during the day today. especially tonight. cold tempera

among them apple ceo steve jobs and google schmid and sucker berg and/or kill ellison and bart and chambers. stanford professor william lives behind this estate and pleased to see the president in his neighborhood. >> good thing for the president to get out into the community that he serves. and a lot of people in woodside have a lot of influence in the direction of our country and that's a good think to interact. >>reporter: purpose of the president visit is to promote innovation and job in high tech and green tech. he wants to spend billions of dollars on clean energy, education, high speed internet and other programs and turning to silicon leaders for their support. >> as a country if we could figure out a way to build programs and support systems to encourage people to go into engineering and reward them accordingly then that would be, i think, important part of the future. >>reporter: but many republicans call this visit nothing more than a reelection campaign photo op where the president is trying to reconnect with his donor base. dillon is chairperson of the san francisco republican

said he would temporarily give up the title while his university investigated the charges who did berg has now asked the university of beirut to retract his ph d. in law admitting he had made quote serious mistakes. now the final space walk of a simulated voyage to mars will soon be underway in moscow before the group or. their bags and head back to worth all the volunteers are halfway through a period of five hundred twenty days spent in isolation in a moscow laboratory the team can assess six volunteers three from russia and one each from china france and italy the experiment is designed to test the effects of long distance space travel alan smith from london smaller space science laboratory says the experiment is a vital step for future space exploration. i think is actually an excellent idea i think it's a lovely idea because it is internationalized is the problem because i think that's a wonderful thing that they've done there internationalize the problem and russia has chosen an aspect of the problem which i don't think is really been addressed properly in the most focus so far h

i don't know don't know where berg is on a mission her goal to tell the world how far and how much nato has gone in taking over the globe and tells our t. why the activist has dedicated her life to stop what she calls the u.s. nato war machine in the south korea and japan where you. guys were there too proud to be one of the guys. why did people know so little about nato sweden cooperation.

i didn't know where berg is on a mission her goal to tell the world how far and how much nato has gone in taking over the globe and tells our t. why the activist has dedicated her life to stop what she calls the u.s. nato war machine in the south korea and japan where you guys were there so proud to be one of the guys. why did people know so little about nato sweden cooperation they sort of don't think about the connection between afghanistan the troops we have in afghanistan and nato it's sort of kept aside so people in this country they are not in for.

sort of collapsing state cash strapped berg in new jersey to fight you know with pickle juice yes apparently bergen new jersey cannot afford salt to salt their roads so they're turning to pickle juice the brine costs just seven cents a gallon compared to sixty three dollars a tonne for salt so bergen county has already used up three million of its four million dollars new project well things you never let me warn you never eat green snow. ok and that's going to do it for this action portion edition i have first half of the kaiser report don't go away much more coming your way they write their . world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future covered. welcome back to the kaiser a part imax guys are time now to go to sandy jaitley of billion basis dot com sandeep welcome to the kaiser report thanks very much max all right send it generally first let's talk about the gold standard there have been several high profile calls for a return to the gold standard could it solve the world's financial crisis it can solve the world financial crisis but it ca

and also you know part of this whole police sort of collapsing state cash strapped berg in new jersey to fight you know with pickle juice yes apparently bergen new jersey cannot afford salt to salt their roads so they're turning to pickle juice the brine cost just seven cents a gallon compared to sixty three dollars a tonne for salt so bergen county has already used up three million of its four million dollars snoop legit well if you ever let me warn you never eat green for no . ok and that's going to do it for this section porson addition to have first half of the kaiser report don't go away much more coming your way they are right there. this is not a theatrical set. this is a real correctional facility. is there any cultural life behind us. could transform a criminal into a citizen. and. really revolutionized the penitentiary system. prison. one deals with war for. this tremendous amounts of damage that not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of. napalm. chemicals that whether it's. a tractor. or it's the

oh yes most certainly mr tony blair the butcher of berg has come out with statements very similar to the statements from glenn beck in fact. it's important to realize that this rhetoric has absolutely nothing to do with religion and everything to do with israel they want somebody to maintain the status quo that mr hosni mubarak has has kept for thirty years since that they want that status quo to remain now with the what follows of the words is a religious government or not is also absolutely none of britain or the united states business it's up to the egyptian people and only the egyptian people but if you really zero in just on israel can you say that it also relates to a general fear of general islamophobia that we're seeing spread and something that i think also helps the u.s. perpetuate its wars being a war in afghanistan ten years on because now we're fighting you know muslim terrorists. of course precisely exactly these imperialist wars have been based upon the complete dehumanization and demonization of muslim people so of course this now is a convenient angle for them to pla

. >> we're on the tip of the its berg of an economic development of the region. >> he is monitoring the unrest in egypt. much of it fueled by the young and educated who are frustrated by high unemployment. nearly 25%. president obama cairo's speech in 2009 persuaded the ceos to make an outreach. he attended this conference in october. he was hoping the move to launch start-ups will survive the current up hiefl. >> business is continuing. we're going to have to slow down for about a month or two and make sure that it's safe. banks are closed in egypt but think it's very short hiccup to a big effort to lies between the egyptian people and the rest of the world. >> he believes more high-tech companies should evaluate the market once stability is restored. egyptian native and ceo says it is his personal mission to help bring about change. >> one single start-up can propagate for the entire landscape. >> that ceo talked about with hope with a dash of desperation that he sees in the younger generation pushing for opportunities. that desperation is backed up by a united nations report that fou

and georgia antonious was a proponent of one, martin bloom berg, and you seem to cite various iterations of such a plan. and at the tale -- tail end of your book, you seem to suggest the only clear solution is the two-state solution. i wonder is that -- is that the product of time or is it the product of a more realistic engagement? i was wondering if you could address that transition. >> well, yes, that's true. george in his book "the arab awakening" he wrote that book in 1938, ten years before the creation of israel. and he was trying to make the case that the palestinians could live with the new immigrants, and they would live in a binational secular state. so i'm reporting that. george was a major influence on my father and a whole generation of state department officers, foreign service officers who specialize in the middle east. arabic, and so that was george's vision. you know, it was a road not taken. and we haven't discussed. but at the end of the book, i have this long -- well, not long, but detailed account of the life of an israeli who was a large influence on my views of the

at the pump the lund berg survey says san francisco now has nation highest practice price no surprise.62 a gallon. according to triple a both san jose and oakland cross the 3.50 mark this past week. >>> now those prices reflect a 3 percent increase in just a week at the pump. as don reports, san francisco does hold dubious distinction. >> hold on to the pump handle and your wallet. san francisco is now the most expensive city in the country for gasoline. 3.79 a gallon for regular at this station. prices are headed in one direction. for many that means a lifestyle change. >> probably try to drive a little less. probably transport. that's a good result. >>reporter: restored 1941 chevy low riding vehicle doesn't see much asphalt any more. >> i don't drive around as much as we used to because of gas prices because of san francisco and the meters and tickets are higher. >> i only work in the city so i don't really have the gas praises not affecting me. he commutes to silicon valley. >> i don't have a choice. >> he has to pay. >>reporter: he does car pool. yet business has been good at car

and then brooks went on to say that david -- that barack obama was berg yang and new edmund burke very, very well. when you write for "the new york times", you can say any preposterous thing, and it'll be taken seriously, at least by the editors of the new york times. not by me. >> host: from qualify at the hangover -- after the hangover, conservatives have remained marginalized by the political culture and left with only one expedient to stardom which is to snipe at fellow conservatives. >> guest: yeah. and that's, that's how -- look, you just, it's a wonderful segway into this because frum and brooks have made their way in politics by saying things about conservatives that aren't true. and they're celebrated for it. and they play the culture smog's various pollutants very, very well. however, i don't think they're going to be able to play those pollutants very, very well in the future because -- by the way, that's "after the hangover: the conservatives' road to recovery. "and that's an important part of the title of that book. and i think that the conservatives have recovered. they a

and that work was done by sam berg vick at the university of melbourne where he went back to look atthose children now in their 30s and 40s to see what was going on, and he found almost all of them had an scn-1 mutation. this is a genetic mutation, all of these children will develop mental retardation or epilepsy independent, obviously, of whether they receive vaccines. that public, that work was published in 2006 and got absolutely no media attention. i mean, when you think about the media attention it was accorded, dpt vaccine roulette in magazines, newspapers, television shows, it was on the today show, it was on 20/20, now fast forward 25 years to where you really have the answer to the question that was raised by that show, and not a single journalist covered that story. remarkable. what's happened, though, is that the dissatisfied parents together one day became the national vaccine information center, really became the one-stop shop to scare parents about vaccines. and every time a new vaccine was introduced on to the market, the national vaccine information center was there.

. >> up next on booktv, niall ferguson talks about the life and influence of sigmund war berg who's london-based bank played an important role in rebuilding post-world war ii europe. the new york historical society in new york city is the host of this event. it's about 50 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, indeed, dale. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for coming tonight. a great pleasure to be with you in what turns out to be an extraordinarily appropriate venue. now, you may not associate bankers with ethical culture -- [laughter] but what i propose to do this evening is to introduce you to a banker who was steeped in ethical culture and who, i feel, would have got on very well with felix adler, also a german-born jew who, of course, called this society into being. i want to begin by asking a very fundamental question, and that relates to how many of you know who siegmund warburg was. my guess is that it's only a minority of you who had heard of mihm before this -- him before this evening. his name is much better known in london where, indeed, he spent most of his financial care

the proposed bringing in the trash by berge and then hauling it to the landfill san francisco sends upf garbage to a landfill in the ultimate pass. that contract is set to expire. this work could make $1 million a year if they win the contract. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. watching conditions in this year, snow showers with a live look here 80, when a storm warning with a lot more snow expected tonight. [ female announcer ] why watch regular tv when you can experience the next generation of television service? at&t u-verse tv. tv like you've never seen before at a really great price. switch to at&t now to get u-verse tv starting at just $29 a month for six months, dvr included. or get up to $300 in promotion cards with a qualifying u-verse bundle. u-verse tv lets you record and play back your favorite shows in any room. and you can record up to four shows at once on a single dvr. maybe that's why u-verse tv is ranked "highest in residential television service satisfaction in the west" by j.d. power and associates three y

anxiety as robert kennedy heaped praise on some of george's segregationists including governor vander berg, not one black student will ever attend the university of georgia, so i sat there wondering where was this going, you know? he said, he appreciated all, and named all these segregationists, and i actually became uneasy, and at a certain point, i relaxed a little bit more and laughed when kennedy talked about being advised by georgians to identify with georgia ken folk. i said i looked around, and we don't have any kennedys in georgia -- [laughter] but in point of fact, georgia had given his brother, he said, the largest biggest percentage majority of any state in the union, and he said that was better than kinfolk. you know, there was a little laughter, but still, not everybody was sort of tense. at that point, i was thinking about how the mar begin he got -- margin he got was due to the number of black people who were won over the kennedys when john kennedy called heir -- harbert -- harietta king, and quietly worked with the brother to speak to the judge to get martin luther king out

[applause] and the youngest person in the audience, senator frank louten berg of new jersey. [applause] we were also pleased to have senator bob menendez and representative eleanor holmes norton here earlier. we have a few administration people here. one is my very good friend, who just took his job as deputy secretary of state for management and resources, tom nidse. tom, stand up. the state department has been doing an extraordinary job on the issue of evacuation of americans from egypt. i think they deserve a special hand for that. [applause] daniel yohanes, you're here somewhere. right there. ok. my friend, the great administrator for the usaid, rag shaw. where are you, raj? the president and c.e.o. of the overseas private investment corporation, elizabeth littlefield. the director of the u.s. trade and development agency, lee zack. and the director of the peace corps, aaron williams. [applause] i think aaron wins the trip to jeopardy. in any event, this is going to be very short. i want to just say a few words about bill gates. the truth of the matter is that he's probab

berg is recognized. [inaudible] >> ambassador kirk, thank you for being here today. you and i both know how critical trading for the tranny and for us to recover from our current situation. i know there's a lot of concern we've heard today just concerned by american public about trade. the national export initiative, the goal of doubling exports is a laudable goal and certain ones that i support. but in order to make that happen we need to get the american people behind this. you've done a tremendous effort going out and speaking on the advantages of trade across this country. i commend you for your efforts in doing that, but it seems to me, maybe you can discuss in more detail, how yourself and the administration is going to get the american people behind more trade, especially the three traded him and we're looking right now. [inaudible] >> i had the same problem. >> thank you for your kind words about our work. i've heard from all of you and i know we have differences may be on panama-colombia but i haven't heard, refreshingly, for many of you a difference we all

berg is recognized. >> [inaudible] >> ambassador kirk, thank you for being here today. you and i both know how critical trade is for the united states and for us to recover from our current situation. and, you know, i know there's a lot of concern we've heard today by the concern from the american public about trade. the american to become national export initiative a goal of doubling exports is certainly one that i support, but in order to make that happen, we need to get the american people behind us. and, you know, you've done a tremendous effort in going out and speaking on the a vintage of trade across this country, and i commend you for your efforts in doing that. but it seems to me, and maybe you can discuss in more detail how yourself and the at ministration is going to get the american people behind more trade, especially those trade agreements we are looking at right now. >> [inaudible] >> the same problem. >> thank you for your kind words. i think and i've heard from all of you we have differences may be on panama and colombia. but i haven't heard, refreshing

and i liken it to the economy being the titanic and derivatives being the ice berg. that's what brought the economy to the bottom. because of the uncertainty it created, the leverage, the impact and because it was beyond the ability of our leaders in the financial stra industry to undd the issues that were at hand. so i'm glad in this report that we have a difference between the majority and the minority as to the play of derivatives here. and i just want to -- i know you cited that $79 billion in credit default swaps in your report. there was also 150 billion that the u.s. taxpayer had to contribute to aig to cover collateral calls on aig's derivatives, collateral debt obligations. a lot of that money went or to goldman sachs, 100 cents on the dollar. but i just wanted to hear from you as to the majority's assessment regarding the impact of derivatives on this crisis. >> very quickly, let me say that ms. bourne can speak in more detail on this. we fund there were three principal impacts. praul, cred first of all, credit default swaps. that's one way in which they co

berg? >> my question comes from north dakota. back in the 80's we had a real financial problem, and we increased taxes and the problem just continued to lead a decade ago we had the same problem on the other states after the dot com burst and we took the opposite approach. we tightened the belt, we didn't raise taxes, we encourage the private sector growth, and today we are below 4% unemployment. we encourage oil and the energy industry to grow and those kind of jobs are positive. so my question to you really relates to the importance of small business, and my own experience is when you tax small business that's negative for them. it creates uncertainty, and so in this budget i see the taxes coming up on small business. most small business, a lot of small business it is passed through and so they are paying the income. 50% of the small business is paying their taxes ordinary income, so my question to you just relates to how can we increase the taxes on the small business and how can that be good for our economy? >> i'm sorry, i w

margaret ham berg, former city health commissioner of new york. what, in my mind, one of the things that is most admirable about commissioner hamberg is that she was a city health commissioner. city health commissioners, at least in my experience in public health, are people who are very action-oriented, they're very con stitch went-friendly. if you're a city health commissioner in if new york or baltimore, i had a chance to work with the baltimore city health commissioner for a little while, you -- it is not unusual to get calls from people in the city complaining about rats in the garbage cans or food that they think they may have been served that was spoiled at a restaurant. and their inclination is to do something about it and to take action relatively quickly. and that, i think, is tempered by, i think also, an acknowledgment that she's presiding over an extremely complex organization, the kind of sensibility that dr. hamberg brings. okay. this is dr. steven someoff, former directer of cfsan, and this is one of, this is one of my old bos. bos